IQBT Rookie Set - ready Oct. 1 2020 - Easy HS, MS

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IQBT Rookie Set - ready Oct. 1 2020 - Easy HS, MS

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IQBT is pleased to announce the introduction of their first Rookie Set. This is a set of 12 packets of 21 tossups and 21 bonuses intended for use at easy-level high school tournaments and at some middle school tournaments. Our goal is to produce a well-written set that is a good introduction to quiz bowl for new teams and players, while maintaining an appropriate challenge of pyramidal tossups and easy/medium/hard bonuses for that difficulty level.

This set will be completed by October 1. The head editor is Clark Smith. The rest of the editing team is Jakob Boeye, Briana Magin, Eve Fleisig, and Noah Sheidlower.

At this time, we are not allowing mirrors of this site at in-person tournaments in the United States. The situation with the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will be monitored; once it is better controlled, we will open this set up to in-person tournaments.

The mirror fee will be $15 per team.

If you would like to reserve this set for use at your tournament, please contact Fred Morlan via email at [email protected].
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Re: IQBT Rookie Set - ready Oct. 1 2020 - Easy HS, MS

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The distribution of the tournament is as follows, on a per-packet basis. For those unfamiliar, the numbers indicate indicates the number of tossups and bonuses per packet – for 1/1, this indicates one tossup and one bonus per round.

Science – 4/4 total
Biology – 1/1
Chemistry – 1/1
Physics – 0.75/0.75
Other Science, including Astronomy, Earth Science, Computer Science, etc. – 1.25/1.25
Non-computation math – 1/1
History – 4/4 total
American History – 1/1
European History – 1/1
World History – 1/1
British + Other History – 1/1
Literature – 4/4 total
American Literature – 1.5/1.5
British Literature – 1.5/1.5
European/World/Other Literature – 1/1/
Classical Music – 0.5/0.5
Paintings – 0.5/0.5
Other Fine Art, including Sculpture, Opera, Film, Ballet, etc. – 0.5/0.5
Religion – 0.5/0.5
Mythology – 1/1
Philosophy – 0.5/0.5
Social Science – 0.5/0.5
Current Events – 1/1
Pop Culture – 1/1
Geography – 1/1

This distribution is for the 20/20 that will be used in a full game. The remaining 1/1 are for tiebreakers and replacement questions, and these questions will be split evenly between science, history, and literature.
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Re: IQBT Rookie Set - ready Oct. 1 2020 - Easy HS, MS

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The following is a list of all sites that will be using this set. This was last updated July 29, 2020.

High School Mirrors
Mid-Late October - Sullivan High School (Missouri), after school #1
November 21, 2020 - Greg Bossick, site TBA (Northwestern Ohio)
Early December - Sullivan High School (Missouri), after school #2

Middle School Mirrors
October 10, 2020 - Alabama (James Clemens & Sparkman High School)
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Re: IQBT Rookie Set - ready Oct. 1 2020 - Easy HS, MS

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I'm pleased to announce that we have our first site, with Greg Bossick planning to use it in northwestern Ohio on November 21. It's still available for use at other Ohio sites if there's no overlap between teams that are being targeted.

Also, we are targeting online events for usage of this set. Please consider us if you're hosting a tournament like that!
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*northwestern
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Corrected. Sorry!
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The distribution has been changed slightly, changing the 1/1 British history to 1/1 British & Other history, which includes the rest of the Commonwealth, ancient history, historiography, and so forth.
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We have surpassed writing 45% of this set.
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At this time, we are not allowing mirrors of this site at in-person tournaments in the United States. The situation with the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will be monitored; once it is better controlled, we will open this set up to in-person tournaments.
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Re: IQBT Rookie Set - ready Oct. 1 2020 - Easy HS, MS

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We've published 5 sample tossups and 5 sample bonuses here.
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We've added four new mirrors, raising our count to five.
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We aren't accepting more mirrors at this time.
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